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When Inman left the CIA, he vowed never to accept another government post. "The frustration," he said, "was in watching the decision makers and thinking they were making a botch of it." Last week he said he didn't want the Defense job either, but he took it for "duty and country." His reputation for straight talk is so solid that no one questioned the statement...
...State Department, under Baker, even managed to botch relations with newlydemocratic Russia. For a long time, under Baker's advice, the Bush administration regarded Boris N. Yeltsin as a coarse, drunken fool. The White House waited to embrace Yeltsin until it was no longer politically possible...
...fate of BNL's former Atlanta branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, who faces trial for allegedly engineering $4 billion in illegal loans to Iraq. But of increasing concern is the credibility of the CIA, the Justice Department and the Bush Administration. Even if it amounts to a mere bureaucratic botch, the tussle over who misled the public allows Democrats to renew calls for a special prosecutor to examine whether the White House tried to cover up its efforts to coddle Saddam Hussein before the invasion of Kuwait...
...fact, the President has to do both -- which helps explain why the Bush- Quayle campaign organization is currently divided over tactics. The re- election team has begun to exhibit a Dukakis-like tendency to botch easy wins, like the photo-op-that-failed with Ronald Reagan in California two weeks ago. Backbiting and finger pointing are rife. Bush's speeches, never memorable in good days, now range from disjointed to enigmatic, bouncing randomly from Cuban independence to the budget deal to trade issues, and leaving many listeners scratching their head. Campaign chairman Bob Teeter, under fire from colleagues for keeping...
...FISHER KING. Trust director Terry Gilliam (Brazil) to hatch the year's most exasperatingly good movie, in which Robin Williams is a holy homeless fool and Jeff Bridges a burned-out case ripe for redemption. To catch the brilliant bits in this handsome botch, you need patience and daring; it's like finding gold nuggets strewn across a minefield...